The MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION AND the reason this FAILS
SO: I am a criminal with connections. What stops someone from taking out the extractor with Serial Number ABCDE and replacing it with VWXYZ. Then, they blast a bunch of people dead and sleep soundly because the person with Serial Number VWXYZ just awoken in the middle of the night with "the key to the city" and a bunch of SWAT people jumping all over them.
YEA, this is FOOLPROOF!
IMO: Any mechanical device that imprints a number or causes etchings is fraught with problems period.
Just ask how BLA worked for the FBI. This is a great 60 Minutes Show:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/16/60minutes/main3512453.shtml
I can see it now:
SO: I am a criminal with connections. What stops someone from taking out the extractor with Serial Number ABCDE and replacing it with VWXYZ. Then, they blast a bunch of people dead and sleep soundly because the person with Serial Number VWXYZ just awoken in the middle of the night with "the key to the city" and a bunch of SWAT people jumping all over them.
YEA, this is FOOLPROOF!
IMO: Any mechanical device that imprints a number or causes etchings is fraught with problems period.
Just ask how BLA worked for the FBI. This is a great 60 Minutes Show:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/16/60minutes/main3512453.shtml
I can see it now:
Yea, we all knew it was possible to forge imprinters.
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